Thoughts on this please

Chords, scales, harmony, melody, etc.
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Hi all,
Is this a boring, deadish melody? Maybe not enough 'leaps'? it's just 8 bars long not too long listen!

http://soundcloud.com/joecc/nov-2011-melody-2

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I quite like it, but its missing something - a bass line perhaps?

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not deadish at all. just fill out the other voices of the chords with pads bass etc.

My first instinct is that it's a i-iim7b5 in... F?

you could sub for the ii with a iv

so if you make the harmony
Fm Gm7b5 Fm Bbm7

that adds dynamicism to your progression and it's magically more interesting!

try a bassline that outlines the roots of those chords too.

then elongate. instead of having every track come in initially, mebbe have the percussion start after an iteration or 2 of the loop, then drop a bass, etc.

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one more suggestion: the last notes in the piano melody are Eb D Eb-Eb

it would sound badass if you had some voice, whether it be bass/melody/whatever play a chromatic descending line to lead back to the C. Your piece feels like its already kinda developing a chromatic flavor.

Eb D Eb D C# | C C Ab F etc...

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From a more non-theoretical POV, it lacks phrasing. It sound like a bunch of notes thrown on a piano roll at same velocities, with no emotion.

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